Well, I just finished composing a cover letter to Canada Revenue Agency, outlining the changes that need to be done to our tax returns, and suggesting a rather simple requirement that would prevent problems like this from happening in the future. I concluded with the following request, which Amy (whose uncle works for CRA, not that that is sufficient to make her an authority) assured me wouldn't get me in trouble:
And finally, if you casually review my records, you will find that I am in regular correspondence with the Canada Revenue Agency – perhaps even disproportionately so for a graduate student with enough familiarity with statistics to know that this is so, and the honesty to report an incorrectly reported public transportation tax credit. I would like to unsubscribe from the CRA Biannual Reassessment Plan, because I no longer have the time and, frankly, my heart isn’t in it anymore. Besides, as I have been living within my means on a student’s income for the past several years, I am not even certain I qualify.
I still have to get Rebecca's signature on the T1 adjustment forms before I can mail everything, so if you disagree with Amy's assessment, please contact me ASAP.
I've had to deal with three requests for further information or documentation over the last few years for reassessment purposes (maybe it's a grad student thing?). i tend to not go the route you are going, which is smarmy. i prefer to overload them with documents, politeness that borders on obsequious, and long winded letters detailing my life in ways that go beyond what they ask for (Twice I also got other people to write letters attesting to all the things I said). it can be time consuming but it tends to divert my anger (my taxes are pretty straightforward, no savings, not a ton of income, why bother me?) into something more like amusement. i'll be anxious to hear how your approach works. mine just means that have to pay a lt of postage to send all my stuff back to me with a rubber stamp.
ReplyDeleteI find composing replies like the one I wrote somewhat entertaining. Plus, it makes good blog fodder. So I guess we each have our own ways of making light of this rather annoying task.
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